Closing the global data science talent gap won't be easy, but it's critical to ensure companies have the ability to make data-driven strategic decisions.
This past summer, The McKinsey Quarterly listed "experimentation and big data" as one of 10 tech-enabled business trends to watch, describing companies' ability to make data-driven decisions in real time as a trend that "has the potential to drive a radical transformation in research, innovation, and marketing".
Even where data is held within a public archive, the ability to make this data available, say online, is restricted.
We have the ability to make health data proactive, timely, actionable and immensely useful.
In this way, the argument tracks with one made by the fictional narrator of "The Pale King" — who is named, in a po-mo fillip, David Wallace — and who observes in Chapter 9 how potentially controversial issues of tax reform can be hidden in plain sight via the government's ability to make the data-dump insurmountable.
It is our working hypothesis that visualization methods can greatly enhance our ability to make sense of data mining results.
He had the data; Oz brought the ability to make the information compelling.
With all of its expertise and its ability to make forecasts based on data, Mr. Toufectis added, "shame on us if we are not capitalizing on that".
And researchers who pair a strong scientific background especially in areas such as cell signaling, metabolic pathways, epigenetics, or small RNAs with the ability to make sense of large data sets gain a leg up on a career in cancer research.
